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2009 Green Enterprise IT Awards |
Best in Class Winner, Data Center Energy Efficiency Improvement: IT
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AOL launched a data center optimization program to increase IT utilization across AOL’s four data centers in the US with the intended purpose of increasing efficiency, reducing operating costs, allowing for future server growth, and deferring costs of expanding to another data center.
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Best in Class Winner, Energy Efficient Products: IT
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APC designed row-based cooling solutions to solve the problem of proper heat removal and cold air supply, but it also brought an inherent energy-efficiency advantage. The reduction in the airflow path length reduces the required fan power, thus increasing its efficiency.
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Best in Class Winner, Facility Design
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eNation's goal in this project was to design a data center based on social responsibility concepts and complete integration of green principles without compromising availability.
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Best in Class Winner, Data Center Energy Efficiency Improvement: Joint IT and Facilities
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In an effort to adopt a “green” data center, MassMutual's Corporate Facility Engineering and Data Center Services organizations partnered to aggressively monitor the overall infrastructure and mechanical growth demand on the MassMutual production data center.
The collaboration so effectively regained capacity that MassMutual was able to avoid major investments and expenses of building out a new data center.
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Best In Class Winner, Green IT: Beyond the Data Center
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University of Notre Dame scientists developed a Grid Heating (GH) paradigm. GH recognizes that, despite evolving low power architectures, demands for increased capability will drive up power consumption toward economic limits on par with capital equipment costs. In contrast to the design of a single facility for centralized compute infrastructure, GH capitalizes on grid and virtualization technologies to distribute compute infrastructure in-line with existing municipal and industrial thermal requirements.
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Best in Class Winner, Data Center Energy Efficiency Improvement: Facilities
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Addressing risks posed by single point of failure in their Munich DC cooling system, UniCredit Group discovered the opportunity to adopt a green cooling solution.
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Best in Class Winner, Energy Efficient Products: Facilities
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In this podcast, Dave Driggers (CTO) and Dan Gatti (Senior VP, Worldwide Market Operations) describe how the combination of BladeRack @X Series servers and FOREST container solutions can improve data center efficiency by more than 100 percent.
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What People Are Saying! |
AOL Data Center
Services
AOL's Implementation Best in Class award at the
Symposium 2008 event resulted in
many positive discussions, both internally and
externally. We've had the opportunity...to collaborate between our internal
Technologies and Facilities groups. We are
proud to share our story and do our part to help the industry
become more "green" and energy conscious through
efficient data center design and management.
Scott Killian, Sr.
Technical Director of Systems Integration
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NetApp
It was quite an honor when NetApp was named
Best-in-Class for Implementation for
our storage consolidation project...It was gratifying...to be asked
to share our experience for our peers throughout the
IT industry at an international conference. The feedback
we received was tremendously satisfying. The added
press coverage was the icing on the cake.
David Robbins, CTO, IT
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| Office Depot
Like many of our environmental initiatives, improving the efficiency of Office Depot’s Global Data Center has increased the reliability of our IT function while reducing our energy usage and costs.
The Uptime Institute award application process helped us to benchmark Office Depot against the industry, while simultaneously giving us recognition by our peers.
Our efforts have resulted in a true win-win and we were thrilled to have been named Best in Class nominee for the Uptime Institute's Facilities Site Physical Infrastructure Overhead award.
Michael Corona, Senior Manager, Global IT
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